Post on 21-Oct-2014
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21st Century Technology Skills for Children and Young Adults
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Agenda• Highlight programming ideas, computing devices,
and apps to help children & young adults thrive in a world based on technology.
• Offer ways to assess children & young adults on successes and failures in mastering these essential skills.
• Discuss the importance of limiting screen time and offer ways to teach other vital skills without the use of technology.
• Share what you are doing …
http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2012-horizon-report-K12.pdf
Game-based Learning
Using competitive exercises to get students to challenge themselves with the hopes of motivating them to learn better and more meaningfully.
“The trick is not in knowing the single solution. It’s having lots of different
options and solutions to turn to.”
Source: Wired Magazine April ,2012, page 22
Kinect in Education• Robotic controls • Augmented Reality in Twitter• Enhance theatre arts• Navigate locations, operating systems etc.• Learn to play guitar• Explore anatomy• Learn sign language• Manipulate air drawings (Brainstorming)• Innovative presentation tool
Source: http://apps.kinecteducation.com/
http://www.trinity.edu/jdonald/bloodonthestacks.htmlhttp://www.civilization5.com/
http://game.nypl.org
Source: @librarygame
Game Development Workshops
Visit http://goo.gl/dQrnd for a list of game engines!
Quick Scratch Demo
Tablets for kids
Play
Reloop
Mocha VNC
SpeedX 3D
Offer classes on “fun”
technologies!
Share your space!
SPC Seminole Gaming Club
Allen County Public Library Creates High-Tech 'Hackerspaces'
Source: http://goo.gl/wHZyR
More information at: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/instruction/scavenger.html
Share your location. Offer incentives for users to check-in to your library and make it worthwhile for them!
Badges
http://www.openbadges.org
Source: http://goo.gl/PUaJp Source: http://goo.gl/6mPSd
Source: http://goo.gl/tVIc9 Source: http://goo.gl/SRZ5Q
Host Gaming nights
Have drawing contests/music guessing contests etc. using Draw Something or
SongPop etc.
Create your own infographics!
http://create.visual.ly/
http://infogr.am/
http://piktochart.com/
Also create animations – easily.
Information fluency is the intersection of information literacy, computer literacy and critical thinking.
So, I think information fluency is …
… having the ability to think critically while being able to apply this thinking across a variety of “literacies” (e.g., information, technological, cultural, scientific etc.) in order to “foster understanding, support sound decision-making, and guide action” in the classroom and beyond!
communicating, problem solving, evaluating, analyzing,
synthesizing, and reflecting on the entire
process.
Transliteracy
Source: http://goo.gl/WUwbn
The ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks.
Some strategies/practices that can help encourage information fluency/critical thinking.
Allow people to do the work and then follow up with them.
Pre/post testing using TRAILS
Free Education For AllWhat is the library’s
role?
Source: http://goo.gl/bzpl1
Source: http://atc21s.org/
Limit Screen Time!
Teens playing Settlers of Catan in Portland Public Library
Go outside!!
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